Friday, September 14, 2012
RANDOM ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA
FRANCE.....bishop + abbots + etc, nobles,sat w/ holders of fiefs; 3rd estate(except in 1789) were elected deputies-no power, + ho just before the revolution, the parliament of paris opened the way to great changes by declaring that taxes could only be legally voted on by the states-general, they had very little authority, in only a few cases did they sanction taxes or vote subsidies; the royal power found it more convenient, till the bankrupt STATE OF THE COUNTRY(DEFICITS/DEBT). louis XVI compelled it to call on the estates for help, to arrange the taxation as it thought good. the great doctrine of the relation between between tax PAING + political power was UNKNOWN in france(grover norquist-GOP land). the true function of the estates seemed limited to expressions of opinion on points the king made + telling him their complaints, made by cashiers or "quires" from the country. they could not remedy the people, all they could do was inform the king, who did what he wanted about them.
FRANCE.....bishop + abbots + etc, nobles,sat w/ holders of fiefs; 3rd estate(except in 1789) were elected deputies-no power, + ho just before the revolution, the parliament of paris opened the way to great changes by declaring that taxes could only be legally voted on by the states-general, they had very little authority, in only a few cases did they sanction taxes or vote subsidies; the royal power found it more convenient, till the bankrupt STATE OF THE COUNTRY(DEFICITS/DEBT). louis XVI compelled it to call on the estates for help, to arrange the taxation as it thought good. the great doctrine of the relation between between tax PAING + political power was UNKNOWN in france(grover norquist-GOP land). the true function of the estates seemed limited to expressions of opinion on points the king made + telling him their complaints, made by cashiers or "quires" from the country. they could not remedy the people, all they could do was inform the king, who did what he wanted about them.
